Chihuahua: Pictures from the Edge by: Virgil Hancock, Charles Bowden
Softcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 67 pages. A collection of 40 color photographs depicting the building facades and ruins of modern day Chihuahua, Mexico. The culminating effect of the brilliantly colored photos is nearly hallucinatory, taking in both the paintings of Bugs Bunny affixed to store facades, and political graffiti with a postmodern inclusiveness which says volumes about the spirit and poverty of this community. An accompanying text essayed by Charles Bowden, author of Blood Orchid , complements the images with a kind of poetic, meandering, and intimate meditation on the physical and existential state of Chihuahua. Lacks an index and bibliography. Clean copy.